SMITH v. YOUNG


300 N.J. Super. 82 (1997)

DENNIS C. SMITH, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. BERNICE YOUNG AND LORRAINE BENJAMIN, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided April 23, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ravich, Koster, Tobin, Oleckna, Reitman & Greenstein, attorneys for appellant (Howard N. Wiener, of counsel and on the brief).

K. Ruth Larson, attorney for respondents (William D. Joachim, on the brief).

Before HAVEY, BROCHIN and KESTIN, JJ.


The opinion of the court was delivered by KESTIN, J.A.D.

This appeal represents yet another episode in the continuing saga of the development of sidewalk liability law in New Jersey. Plaintiff incurred serious injury when he slipped and fell on an accumulation of ice on a public sidewalk in front of defendants' property, a co-owned, two-family home in which only one of the co-owners resides, with the remaining residential unit rented to tenants by the other co-owner...

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